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We are looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst
Term: 6-month contract - 37.5 hours
Location: Winnipeg - Hybrid
Job ID number: C1080
Brief description of duties:
- Investigates system issues to determine the root cause, formulates solution options, and provides a recommended direction
- Works to resolve incidents of varying complexity while ensuring minimum disruption to business functions
- Attends regularly scheduled and ad hoc team meetings and communicates status of issues to business and technology stakeholders
- Defines and communicates system requirements and design at the appropriate level of detail to ensure applications are available, testable and maintainable
- Applies both business and technical knowledge, to successfully represent the business and technology community in arriving at technical solutions
- Authors project and support deliverables such as technical specifications
- Business Systems analyst experience
- Extensive Capital Markets and Financial service industry knowledge
- Middle Office experience
- Oracle SQL experience (performing data analysis)
- Knowledge of/ experience with systems integration patterns (use of APIs, file transfers, data exchange, etc.)
- Excellent communication (will be talking to VPs and SVPs)
- Knowledge of / experience with quant environments (use of Python, non-SQL DB (MongoDB), time series data, visualization tools (e.g. Tableau), cloud-based services/ tools)
- Knowledge of/ experience with market data vendors and sourcing – e.g. benchmarks, reference data, economic data, ESG, etc
- Knowledge/experience with Investment management and Fund Services systems/application (e.g. Bloomberg FactSet, Eagle, W360, InvestOne etc. and data associated with these systems) (do not need all)
- CFA, PMP, Change Management, or CSC
- Project management experience is a plus
- Technical background
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems analyst | 8+ |
| Middle Office experience | 8+ |
We are looking for an AWS Full-Stack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contact
Title: AWS Full-Stack Developer
Term: 12-month contract - 40 hours
Location: Remote
Job ID number: C1079
Brief description of duties:
We seek a versatile, full-stack software developer for several programs involving software, data science and analytics. You will work with a cross-functional team to develop, test, and deploy software for operational use in the field. A strong background in Javascript, Python, software best practices, and a willingness to learn are essential. In addition, this role requires strong communication skills and experience working with a team in rapid development cycles. We are looking for a candidate who is willing to learn things quickly and is adept at fast changing environments. You may not know everything but if you can demonstrate that you can learn things quickly, that’s what we are looking for.
Responsibilities:
- You will design and build software capable of interactive web application in Python and React
- You will write modular, secure, and well-tested code
- You will convert mockups to actual UI with interactive visualizations
- You will partner with product managers, designers, and data scientist to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves those needs
- You will work closely with customer support to respond quickly to issues for our users and solve those in a permanent and scalable way
- Full-stack development: 2 years (Required)
- Python, JavaScript, React, Redux, node.js: 2 years (Required)
- Opensearch/Elasticsearch: 1 year (Highly Preferred)
- Software Documentation: 1 year (Preferred)
- Full stack development experience with React, Redux, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Proficient with D3.js and front end visualization with dynamic filters
- Experience with REST APIs and SSO integration (oAuth2)
- Understanding of serverless web development using Lambda, API gateway, S3
- Experience with NoSQL (DynamoDB) and asynchronous calls using React
- Hands-on experience with Opensearch/Elasticsearch APIs
- Knowledge of CI/CD process, git and git actions
- Software Development and Software Documentation
- Database design and system architecture
- AI/ML in Sagemaker
- Agile Software Development Process
- MLOps in AWS
- Docker/Containerization
Job Features
| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |
| Full-Stack Development | 2 |
| Python, JavaScript, React, Redux, node.js | 2 |
| Opensearch/Elasticsearch | 1 |
| Software Documentation | 1 |
We are looking for a Data Modeler/Data Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Data Modeler/Data Architect
Term: 6-month contract - 40 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid, 2-days on-site a week
Job ID number: C1078
Brief description of duties:
- Work with the direction of the senior data architecture to design, implement and document logical and physical data modeling and meta-data solutions to support the expansion of core financial data availability in our strategic data repositories.
- Understanding of the data solutions to incorporate best practices to produce appropriate relational, dimensional data models, apply attribute domain name conventions, definition storage, and provide the meta-data of the data modeling solution for target data dictionaries and data catalogs.
- Understanding of modeling concepts (Kimball, Inmon) and ACID compliant strategies
- Understanding of ETL/ELT strategies and concepts
- Implementation of the data catalog to structure and populate meta-data dictionaries and business glossaries, which will compliment the work of the logical and physical data modeling for the same project.
- Other data catalog activities will include the testing of meta-data tooling, supporting the management and governance of meta-data in our data catalog, and helping to automate the population of meta-data in our data catalog.
- Contribute to defining the modeling process to embed within SDLC and practices to ensure share responsibilities for data modeling and safe keeping of modeling artifacts.
- Understand the data migration needs between platform such as Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake.
- Work with the development team to implement the migration, i.e. conversion of database objects to target system
- Work with business stakeholder, data scientists to determine metadata querying requirements.
- 5-10 years of data modeling experience using Erwin, Embarcadero, or similar tool, to build logical and physical data models in target databases
- 2-3 years experience working with/designing and populating a meta-data solution, a business glossary, or data dictionary
- Subject area modeling expertise - financial institutional data management. - portfolios, securities, legal entities, hierarchies, and facts related to positions, transactions, and performance.
- SQL expert
- Expert knowledge of metadata management and related tools.
- Technical documentation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting and interviewing.
- Parallel processing database and columnar based (Synapse, Snowflake)
- Relational (SQL Server, Oracle) for purpose of modeling for query and ETL performance
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Modeler |
| Erwin, Embarcadero, or similar tool | 5-10 |
| Working with/designing and populating a meta-data solution, a business glossary, or data dictionary | 2-3 |
| SQL | 5-10 |
We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Business Systems Analyst
Term: 6-month contract
Location: Toronto - Hybrid, 2-days on-site
Job ID number: C1077
Brief description of duties:
Working in the Finance IT group for an IFRS17 Project - Onboard the client Insurance accounts to enable 2-way reconciliations. Phase 1 will focus on RIBS to eGL reconciliation.
The BA will be required to perform Analysis and prepare detailed requirements and rules for onboarding account-level data from source to General Ledger, enabling robust reconciliations process within TLM, as it relates to IFRS 17 purposes. Support associated configuration work.
MUST haves:
- 7+ years of BSA experience.
- Experience working on an IFRS17 Project
- Excellent knowledge of Accounting and Financial Reconciliation
- Data and file interface specs incl. System Requirements specs; good understanding of GL and Financial data; ability to work in fast-paced and demanding environment with multiple stakeholders.
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems Analysis | 7+ |
| IFRS17 | 3+ |
We are looking for a Software Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Software Developer
Term: 6-month contarct
Location: Toronto or Montreal - Hybrid, 2-days on site
Job ID number: C1076
Brief description of duties:
- Develop software that either automates functions that are being conducted manually today by the Ad Operations team or enables new functions.
- Deliver bug-free software validated through unit tests integrated in an automated CICD pipeline.
- Collaborate with the Operations teams in the capture of new requirements.
- Write integration APIs to bridge connectivity between existing software components.
- Provide testing support as needed for staging and production deployments.
- Provide support and maintenance for updates or new rollouts.
- Provide accurate estimates based on business requirements.
- Understand and apply Agile Scrum guidelines and principles throughout the delivery.
- Support existing and new workflows, including investigation into internal and external customer advertising-related issues.
- Suggest enhancements to improve customer and operations teams’ experience based on investigations or lessons learned from prior issues.
- Work closely with development managers to ensure successful delivery of solutions, focusing on ensuring that all committed requirements are met and are implemented.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Prior experience working in an Agile or Scaled Agile environment.
- 3+ years’ experience in software development utilizing one or many of the following programming languages and technologies: Python, Java, JavaScript, Swift, Nexus, SonarQube, Selenium, Cucumber, Junit.
- Experience with Advertising Technologies like SSPs, DSPs, DMP, Google Ad Manager, Cadent or Freewheel
- Experience with Ad viewability verification
- 2+ years of experience working with one or many of the environments and/or services offered by public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- 2+ years of experience in writing unit and integration tests
- Direct understanding of application lifecycle; SDLC and High availability and Sustained Resiliency
- Ability to consult and build CI/CD DevOps Pipelines (Gitlab CI)
- Operational experience, troubleshooting and support, Incident Management (Jira, Service Now)
- Ability to analyze, articulate and solve complex problems.
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, Web Services/Microservices
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment for some of Canada’s favorite media brands.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Bilingualism is an asset (English and French)
Job Features
| Job Category | Software Developer |
| Software Developement | 3+ |
| Python, Java, JavaScript, Swift, Nexus, SonarQube, Selenium, Cucumber, Junit. | 3+ |
| Jira, Service Now | 3+ |
We are looking for a Data Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Full-time
Title: Data Engineer
Term: Full-time
Location: Across Canada - Hybrid or Remote
Job ID number: C1075
Brief description of duties:
We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients and our communities.
Our Business Intelligence team empowers decision making using leading edge science and analytics. We champion a scientific culture through our passion for continuous learning, diversity and innovation. We strive to deliver a single version of truth, by providing our business partners with access to comprehensive data and valuable insights to help our organization achieve operational excellence.
As a data engineer within our Data & Analytics Engineering team you will contribute to building a strong data engineering practice, bringing your experience and expertise to influence and define our way or working and setting high engineering standards for our solution delivery teams.
How you will create impact:
- Contribute to the definition of standards, processes, and tools that enable the full software development lifecycle, supporting continuous integration and delivery ensuring that solutions are tested, documented, maintainable, scalable, error-resistant, and limit technical debt.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code within the Azure ecosystem, building pipelines that enable our partners to deliver applications and analytics.
- Deliver and support the delivery of quality data products and quality solutions through which data flows striving to provide accurate, complete, consistent, timely and valid data to analysts and scientists.
- Construct, test, reconcile and document BI solutions.
- You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
- You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions, and proactively propose solutions.
- You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
- You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.
- You have 5 years of relevant Data or DevOps Engineering experience.
- You have a University Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
- Exposure to the use of job-related applications, appliances and programming languages (Azure Synapse) is an asset.
- You have experience with cloud-based DevOps tools (Azure DevOps is preferred).
- Experience working with Scala, PySpark and/or other data engineering tools is an asset.
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Engineer |
| Data or DevOps Engineering | 5 |
| Cloud-based DevOps tools (Azure DevOps is preferred) | 5 |
We are looking for a Front-End Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Front-End Developer
Term: 6-month with a chance of extension - 40 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid 1-2 days a week
Job ID number: C1074
Brief description of duties:
Front-End Developers play a significant role on our engineering team, developing the user facing applications for our company’s websites, functional and mobile web applications. Front-End Developers collaborate openly in an Agile development environment with other members of engineering and user experience teams, including Architects, QA, User interaction & User interface designers, as well as Project Managers. They participate in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.
Our Front-End developers are responsible for building semantic, WCAG compliant, responsive, maintainable and performant solutions that meet business requirements and project goals while lining up with future strategic visions.
MUST haves:
- University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education experience.
- 2 - 5 years of industry experience.
- Expert proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Expert proficiency with the JavaScript framework React
- A high level of experience building UI layouts using SASS, LESS, and the CSS GRID system
- Comprehensive understanding of MongoDB and good working knowledge of other NoSQL and SQL databases
- Comprehensive knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related techniques for building compliant web applications.
- A solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues, and ways to work around them
- Demonstrated experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing
- Good knowledge and practical experience of build tools like Webpack, Rollup etc.
- Good working knowledge of Java & Spring
- Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Significant experience debugging using browser-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
- Some exposure to Continuous Integration/Delivery pipeline for cloud, including Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, etc.
- Some experience working in an agile environment using tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a fast paced team oriented environment.
Job Features
| Job Category | Front-end Developer |
| Front-End Developer | 2-5 |
| HTML, CSS, JavaScript | 2-5 |
| JavaScript framework React | 2-5 |
We are looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst
Term: 6-month
Location: Toronto - The position will be remote until office reopens at full capacity
Job ID number: C1073
Brief description of duties:.
The Systems Analyst (SAN) is responsible for ensuring and leading the effective application of technology to business problems and opportunities. The SAN works closely with the business sponsors and business representatives to create the business architecture and capture the business systems objectives, evaluate the business case, and define the business and systems requirements. This role also works with Project Managers, Systems Architects, and senior Software Developers in a shared responsibility for project feasibility evaluation, quality and completion. Scale Large projects involving multiple business areas involving both internal and external companies. May involve other sites. Complexity Level High level of complexity across various business areas where both the impact and risk associated are high.
MUST haves:
- 7 - 10 years of Business Systems Analyst experience minimum
- data analysis, functional and nonfunctional analysis, data migration, logical data mapping. Experience applying problem solving, critical thinking negotiation, as well as with delivering overviews, presentations
- Excellent communications.
- Finance/compliance/HR experience required
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems Analyst | 7-10 |
| Finance/compliance/HR experience | 3-4 |
We are looking for a Security Specialist ! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Security Specialist
Term: 6-month
Location: Toronto - The position will be remote until office reopens at full capacity
Job ID number: C1072
Brief description of duties:
The Client requires the services of a security expert to assist in day-to-day security operations activities, implement security enhancements and improvements in Client's cloud environment and application development/management practices, provide consulting expertise to the projects, and provide guidance, instruction, training, and knowledge transfer to team members.
MUST haves:
Services:
The contractor will provide the following services:
- Configure, update, implement, monitor, assess, and respond to alerts, recommendations, and findings reported by AWS detective controls such as AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, Trusted Advisor, IAM Access Analyzer, CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, etc.
- Establish organizational security and compliance guardrails within the cloud environment using services such as AWS Config, Service Control Policies, Tag Policies, Permission Boundaries, AWS Firewall Manager, etc.
- Engage in root-cause analysis using tools such as Amazon Detective, AWS CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs Insights, and VPC Flow Logs
- Assist in operations automation for security-related tasks such as patch management, building EC2 images, and container image scanning.
- Manage and improve network access control in AWS using a third-party firewall
- Integrate and collect AWS logs and events into Splunk using AWS CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, and the Splunk App for AWS.
- Acquire visibility and insight of the cloud environment and services through the use and configuration of Splunk.
- Ensure that all cloud solutions adhere to enterprise cloud security and compliance controls using frameworks such as the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar
- Develop processes, in the form of playbooks and runbooks, for incident response affecting the cloud environment as per client’s security incident protocols.
- Identify gaps and assist in improving AD/Azure AD, M365, MS Defender, ZScalar security posture.
- Lead application security improvement initiatives including but not limited to SAST, DAST and other security best practices.
- Consult on and provide requirements for critical projects and initiatives.
- Raise the awareness level of cloud security within the organization.
- Take initiatives and play an active role in continuously improving and advancing client’s cloud environment by assessing overall risk and mitigation effectiveness in face of evolving network attacks and threat vectors.
- Document the operational aspects of security in the cloud with Standard Operating Procedures
- Assist with the development, implementation and maintenance of client’s ISMS policies and procedures.
- Collaborate and must provide guidance, instruction, training, and knowledge transfer to team members.
Job Features
| Job Category | Security Specialist |
| Security Specialist | 5+ |
We are looking for a ServiceNow Specialist ! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: ServiceNow Specialist
Term: 12-month
Location: Toronto and Winnipeg - will consider remote candidates because of the niche skillset but please relay client expectation to client and remote options will be given less priority by client
Job ID number: C1070
Brief description of duties:
- Captures business requirements in a form of agile stories, as well as testing configured functionalities end to end as soon as these have been developed
- Form a partnership with the client business teams to deeply understand their business. Collect, review, analyze, and manage business, user and system requirements from client stakeholders to create clear, concise, and correct user stories.
- Bridge the gap between business and technology ensuring common understanding and alignment of business / technology including functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (quality attributes, scalability, interfaces, constraints, etc.)
- Manages the overall implementation process in cooperation with developers which includes Unit Testing and drives UAT
- Manage and / or execute the UAT process by performing smoke testing, test case validation, and obtaining business approvals on UAT for scheduled deployments.
- Analyze information business systems to identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Write detailed acceptance criteria and attach to stories
- Create data mapping documents. Knowledge articles and solution documentation for knowledge sharing
- Participates in design, test and transition Service Management and Service Integration solutions within the Now Platform
- Performs thorough data analysis, while engaged in ServiceNow related projects, in order to provide requirements for developers enabling configuration and customization
- Designs and execute trainings, demo’s/show me sessions
- Confer with clients/users to identify, analyze and document requirements.
- Assist Delivery teams to rectify issues and improve service delivered to the customers against ServiceNow Platform.
- Document and improve existing templates used for communications and requirements gathering
- 5+ years relevant experience.
- Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders, such as clients and internal team members
- Strong analytical skills are needed to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts
- Decompose high-level information into details,
- Facilitation skills to assist gathering requirements in workshops and provide training to clients and internal team members
- Use of industry recognized technologies to facilitate work environment
- Demonstrate experience in communicating across all levels of an organization, at the most senior levels
- Understanding Scrum Methodology
- Good Knowledge in Service Now & CMDB Discovery
- Good Communication and Writing Skill
- Well-versed with documentation (MS office Suite)
- Well-versed with Agile Methodology
- ITSM (ITIL V4)
- Proficiency in capturing and documenting business requirements, functional specifications, test scenarios/scripts, data models and business procedures
- Strong process flow and diagramming skills (Visio application)
- Experience creating and delivery of training materials
- Experience with testing including the use of Quality Centre
- Strong interpersonal skills; strong relationship management and negotiation skills
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills - verbal, written, listening and presentation
- ITIL Foundation+
- COBIT, VeriSM, IT4IT, Lean IT (desirable).
- Scrum certified (desirable)
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (must have)
- Canadian Financial industry experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| ServiceNow | 5+ |
We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Systems Analyst
Term: 6-month
Location: Remote
Job ID number: C1069
Brief description of duties:
The Group Customer Technology (GC Tech) team is responsible for delivering technology solutions to our Group Customer business partners for the benefit of advisors, plan sponsors, plan members and staff who support those stakeholders. Our technology professionals make a significant contribution to the company’s business goals through the effective delivery of value-added services.
We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst.
Given the size and scope of our organization, we have the flexibility for this position to be located anywhere across Canada.
This is an exciting time to join the GC Tech organization as we continue to build, enhance and support the technologies and systems that deliver functional value to our Group Customer business partners. As a Business System Analyst on our DevOps team, you will contribute to the ongoing development and sustainment of systems through design, development, support and maintenance activities in addition to the building of new application systems through the modernization and integration of existing legacy systems.
The Business Systems Analyst will work closely with the business and leadership to understand business needs, requirements, and strategic opportunities. Working in a team environment, they are responsible for:
- Representing the business’ requirements,
- Defining and designing the business functionality of the system,
- Ensuring that the system meets the defined business requirements.
- Understanding and defining a strategic vision for key systems based online of business, their needs, known risks and dependencies in partnership with portfolio solutions architects.
- Applying advanced knowledge to help implement solutions to resolve complex problems or capitalize on new ideas, which may be independently or through leading or supporting the collaboration with other stakeholders.
- Applying Agile knowledge and experience to capture and shape business needs and requirements so that they can be progressively refined into Epics and user stories that the Agile teams can work with to deliver value. Helping to uncover and maximize the business/customer/user value of planned initiatives through facilitation, analysis, and modeling techniques. Deep understanding of how Agile teams work and how value flows through the system and gets delivered to the customer.
- Working with the portfolio team and business partners, use intake, triage, and formalized discovery processes to define the problem/opportunity and expected business benefits for each target stakeholder group.
- Working with the portfolio architect and business partners, gather and define enough high-level requirements to develop a high-level system impact assessment, scoped solution, and business case.
- Lead and orchestrate the overall analysis, scoping, estimating, and planning for Small to Medium initiatives
- Lead the elicitation and validation of business requirements using various methods, techniques, and tools
- Define detailed business requirements using waterfall or agile requirement gathering methodologies, functional and non-functional specifications for each work package to be assigned to DevOps squads for detailed design, build and execution.
- Help facilitate the assignment of work packages to DevOps squads for prioritization and execution.
- Provide support to other squad BSAs, Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts during the detailed, design and build delivery phases.
- Help facilitate the analysis between DevOps squads as business scope, requirements and/or the solution evolves during the delivery lifecycle.
- Work with quality assurance team members to ensure adequate testing and validate that the system meets business needs/expectations.
- Lead and facilitate meetings, walkthroughs, workshops, and reviews of deliverables
- Contribute to training strategies and business implementation planning.
- Help coordinate development and delivery of training & support materials for affected stakeholders
- Accreditation in Business Analysis or equivalent credentials/experience.
- 2-5 years as a Business Systems Analyst in a Technology delivery environment
- Degree in related discipline (Computer Science, Commerce, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, etc) or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly critical thinking, with a strong attention to detail.
- A focus on understanding the desired business outcomes and delivering to meet those outcomes.
- Customer centric approach to problem solving with the ability to collaborate, resolve conflicts, and reach consensus with others.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills, with the ability to translate complex technical subject matter in business terms for executive audiences, succinctly and professionally and to translate business requirements into technical instructions for software developer audiences.
- Ability to work in a virtual team environment, facilitating and contributing to work across geographies and across other functional teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and operating under levels of uncertainty.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly and to work independently with minimal direction.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple competing projects and priorities under time pressure without compromising quality.
- Experience working within an Agile Scrum and/or Kan Ban team.
- Experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
- Experience working with, or within, a financial services organization.
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems Analyst | 2-5 |
We are looking for an SA&A Specialist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: SA&A Specialist
Term: 6-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Remote
Job ID number: C1069
Brief description of duties:
The key duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Define and lead the implementation of an enterprise-wide strategy focused on the reduction of technology risk
- Develop and maintain Cyber policies, standards, processes, and procedures
- Review and mature existing Security Assessment and Authorization process
- Conduct Government of Canada (GOC) security assessments (as an assessor) using the Security Assessments and Authorization (SA&A) process and draft Security Assessments Reports outlining the critical risks and recommending remediation to senior management
- Develop and maintain a Cyber Risk register including critical assets, vulnerabilities and threats
- Perform threat modeling exercises on a regular and ad-hoc basis to identify existing and new emerging threats relevant to CDIC
- Develop and maintain Cyber policies, standards, processes, and procedures
- Develop Cyber communication plans and content on security awareness and best practices
- Work with information Technology (IT), business, internal and external audit teams to perform security and compliance assessments on new and existing systems, processes, and technologies
- Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing
- Lead efforts to achieve compliance with various frameworks and regulations by consulting and working with the relevant IT and business staff and control owners
- Perform periodic gap assessments to validate compliance on an ongoing basis to ensure that proper controls are in place and risks are appropriately mitigated.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Cyber Security, or a related field and/or ten (10) years equivalent work experience
- Three (3+) years of relevant experience in the IT risk, security, compliance or audit field
- Certification in one or more of the following: CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional); CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control)
- Valid Reliability level security clearance
- Extensive hands-on experience in IT security architecture (on prem and Azure Cloud Infrastructure)
- Extensive hands-on experience in SDLC (DevSecops) and application security (OWASP)
- Extensive experience in GOC ITSG-33, ITSG-22, PBMM (Protected B with Medium Integrity and Medium Availability) guidance and controls
- Experience in conducting GOC Security Assessments (as an assessor) using the SA&A process and drafting Security Assessments Reports outlining the critical risks and recommending remediation to senior Management
- Specialization in IT Security, Forensics, IT Management
- Certification in one or more of the following: CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker); CCSE (Check Point Certified Expert); CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional); Azure Security Engineer Associate; Microsoft 365 Security Administrator Associate; GWEB (GIAC Web Application Defender); CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Secret level clearance
Job Features
| IT risk, security, compliance or audit field | 3+ |
| IT security architecture (on prem and Azure Cloud Infrastructure) | 10+ |
| GOC ITSG-33, ITSG-22, PBMM (Protected B with Medium Integrity and Medium Availability) guidance and controls | 10+ |
We are looking for an SAP Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: SAP Project Manager
Term: 6-month
Location: Toronto
Job ID number: C1068
Brief description of duties:
This role is accountable for managing the deployment of S/4 HANA to the US organization and managing the activities in the Finance or Procurement domains. The ideal candidate must have SAP project delivery experience in the Finance or Procurement domain.
We need resources with strong SAP delivery management experience and to be responsible for effective planning and execution throughout all phases of our project management methodology. The IT Project Manager will be responsible for managing assigned resources, creating and tracking detailed project plans, effectively leading and facilitating project meetings, effectively tracking budgets and financial forecasts, as well as proactively controlling project scope, risks and issues. This position is expected to provide timely status reports to all stakeholders and escalate issues to the appropriate management level. Additionally, this position must effectively manage the projects across global locations and time zones and be able to travel internationally as needed.
The responsibilities include:
- Manage the deployments activities for SAP in the Finance and Procurement domains, drive the deployment strategy analysis and decision, manage the cross functional impacts.
- Define, plan, and direct the execution of a broad range of technical projects (both applications and infrastructure related) while balancing the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk to produce a high quality product
- Identify, acquire, and lead multifunctional, global project teams (project team sizes ~15)
- Ensure project objectives/requirements are clear and agreed to by all stakeholders
- Manage relationships with various local and global stakeholders to achieve project objectives
- Facilitate project management activities across the entire project management methodology
- Ensure successful and timely completion of deliverables
- Track progress against baseline schedule
- Plan, baseline and control costs to ensure projects are completed within approved budget
- Identify and apply systematic quality activities to ensure that projects employ all processes needed to meet Computer System Validation directives
- Suggest improvements where necessary / appropriate to improve operational efficiencies
- Conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis and monitoring on projects
- Formulate risk mitigation strategies and recommend solutions
- Manage the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information and documentation necessary for successful communications across all stakeholders and any required updates to living system documents for validated systems
- Experience with managing ERP projects is mandatory
- Domain knowledge in Finance or Procurement is mandatory.
- 7+ years of experience as a successful Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes
- Experience working in a GMP environment and delivering GxP system solutions
- Solid Understanding of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) concepts and methodologies
- Demonstrated competency planning and tracking project schedules with clearly-defined critical paths
- Ability to manage mid-level, multifunctional projects across multiple global locations
- Proven ability to obtain results in a global, matrix environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as presentation abilities
- Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including business people and technologists (both up and down the organization)
- Exceptional listening, problem solving, negotiation, and facilitation skills
- Proven leadership abilities and emotional intelligence
- Demonstrated success handling initiatives of medium complexity and risk
- Project management skills training, such as PMP, SAFe certification
- Experience within the Pharmaceutical and BioTech industry
Job Features
| Successful Information Technology Project Manager using structured project management processes | 7+ |
| GMP environment and delivering GxP system solutions | 5+ |
| ERP projects | 5+ |
We are looking for an SAP Solution Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: SAP Solution Architect
Term: 12-month
Location: Toronto and Winnipeg - Preference is someone in Toronto/Winnipeg area (Hybrid preferred)
Job ID number: C1067
Brief description of duties:
- Moving from SAP GL to SAP S4 Hana from Canada life data center to cloud s4 Hana
- Expenses module will also be implemented as net new module into SAP finance across 3 companies
- SAP SuccessFactors roadmap – not harmonized so they will be looking for standardization on this part as to how everything is done in SuccessFactors – best practice
- Extensive Solution Architect experience
- Extensive SAP experience
- Candidates should have expertise in one or other of SAP FICO (financial) and or Successfactors – candidates with experience in both are preferred
- Has done several implementations in SAP with focus on SAP GL and Sucessfactors
- Experience migrating data center local hosted SAP to S4 Hana cloud
- Excellent communication. Working with Stakeholder at C level like CFO and VP HR
- Presenting target state in presentations to executive steering committees
- Major implementation from an enterprise level
- HR/Finance experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Solution Architect |
| Solution Architecture | 5+ |
| SAP S4 Hana | 5+ |
| SAP | 5+ |
We are looking for a Solution Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Solution Architect
Term: 12-month
Location: Toronto
Job ID number: C1066
Brief description of duties:
- Develop, design, configure, test and deployment of new/enhancements of the application including but not limited to, modules, workflows, catalog requests, scripts, reporting, data imports, custom scripting, third-party software integrations, user interface and other ServiceNow platform component.
- Combine business knowledge and analytic insight with programming skills to develop applications while managing business requirements and ensuring all technical deliverables.
- Ensure solution architecture analysis, design and direction on the development activities, with specific emphasis on leading efforts involving Process, Solution Design, and Integration while ensuring technical leadership and assurance of best practices
- Respond to and manage all ServiceNow issues including troubleshooting ServiceNow upgrades, patching, and release management.
- Produce detailed documentation and required training on all relevant work. Maintain up-to-date documentation related to the application administration and configuration.
- Document and support technical architectures that are clearly understood by other architects, developers, and testers
- Manage ServiceNow instances, including the data management, table maintenance, overall security of the platform, configuring Service Level
- Agreements, developing workflows, business rules, UI pages, UI actions, UI policies, catalog items etc. and updates of all other existing solutions requiring revisions
- Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, standards, working methods, and tools while ensuring adherence to cording and quality standards.
- Drive out the development and execution of the ServiceNow project activities, working with the project team to define, sequence and estimate duration of project activities and duration of schedule to meet project objectives
- Integrate and architect with other complex systems like Service Cloud (client facing technology), Remedy and other Supplier-based tools that enable the client's day to day operations
- Envision and enable a long term ServiceNow capabilities outside of IT Service Management and IT Operations Management suites (ie. Customer Service Management, Cloud Management, etc)
- Design and architect ServiceNow CMDB and Discovery Jobs
- Work directly with business clients to understand specific business processes and business drivers and business strategy across a business unit; identifies and communicates resulting future needs and opportunities for business services that can be enabled via ServiceNow, and oversees the technical development, testing and delivery of business solutions
- Other duties as assigned
- Experience as Solution Architect 3-5 years
- Experience (5 years) implementing and supporting ITSM and ITOM suites, including strong skills in Discovery
- Experience (5 years) ITIL methodologies, IT architecture, JavaScript, web software design principals, database architecture, and relational databases
- Experience (5 years) in Scripting, System Definition, Business Rules, Menus, UI/Forms, UI Actions, Content Management, Imports, Transform Maps, Web Services (SOAP, REST, including cross-browser compatibility), and Notifications (e.g. XML, HTML, AJAX, CSS, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.)
- Experience (3-5 years) in utilizing of AngularJS, JavaScript, GlideScript, JSON, Jelly, SOAP, database management concepts
- Experience (3-5 years) in Identity Management / Authentication approaches (token, SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0), integrations (LDAP, Active Directory) Single Sign-on using various authentication methods
- ServiceNow Fundamentals and Administrator Certification required
- ServiceNow Implementation Specialist in two or more applications required
- ServiceNow Certified Application Developer desired
- Has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent
- Excellent communication skills and a strong personal commitment to quality service
- Ability to organize work as a project and work across multiple projects
- MS platform and scripting knowledge
- SQL server database knowledge
- Canadian Financial industry experience
- Scrum Manager experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Solution Architect |
| Solution Architect | 3-5 |
| Implementing and supporting ITSM and ITOM suites, including strong skills in Discovery | 5 |
| ITIL methodologies, IT architecture, JavaScript, web software design principals, database architecture, and relational databases | 5 |